• Machinist@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I’ve been paying for a Pandora subscription for about a decade. Worth it. (Piracy is a service problem.)

    Their recommendations for similar bands, auto play, and making stations from a band or song has let me discover so much music over the years.

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      29 days ago

      (Piracy is a service problem.)

      Piracy isn’t a problem.

      • Machinist@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        I mean, I have a home server setup with 32 terabytes of NAS in a RAID 5 running the *Arrs and Jellyfin pulling from Usenet. Also running Calibre and paying for Anna’s.

        Like I told a friend that got huffy with me over how I do my sailing, “I been pirating since you had babyteeth.”

        You can be prickly if you want, but increased piracy is a symptom of a service problem. If Netflix hadn’t gone to shit, I’d still be using it. I’m considering paying for Samsung’s art subscription for my TV.

        I will pay a reasonable price for convenient media. Make it difficult or expensive enough, and I’ll sail the high seas. Time is money.